The 12X will now run every 10 minutes from Monday to Friday, during the daytime, and extra services both on Sundays and in the evenings.

As for Saturdays, the bus will now run every 15 minutes.

Rise in bus trips

It comes at a time where it has been revealed that National Express Coventry have actually seen a growth in passenger journeys - despite the national trend showing a decline in bus travel.

Annual statistics from the Department for Transport show that overall bus use in England (outside of London) has fallen over the last 25 years - but year-on-year, in Coventry it has grown by two percent.

Tom Stables, Managing Director, National Express UK, said: “ That’s an extra thousand passengers a day and defies the trend of declining bus use elsewhere.

“We’ve made changes to some of our services to better serve the community, with more links from the city centre and we're delighted to have been able to increase the frequency of our popular 12X service, which provides our passengers with the quickest link between Coventry city centre, rail station and Warwick University.”

Other changes to Coventry's buses

The 11 service from Coventry city centre to Leamington Spa operates up to every 20 minutes Monday to Saturday daytime, with additional journeys between Coventry, Earlsdon and the University during term times. Evening and Sunday services have had minor timetable changes.

Service 16 and 16A from Warwickshire Shopping Park has a revised timetable with buses continuing to run up to every 10 minutes Monday to Saturday daytime.

In addition, one bus per hour will continue on from Warwickshire Shopping Park to University Hospital, replacing the iGo 26 service which ceased operation on September 30.

A new service 20C has also been introduced, linking the city centre and Walsgrave Tesco via Foleshill Road. The 20C operates hourly Monday to Saturday daytime with a small gap at afternoon school time and replaces the iGo service 30, which no longer exists.

Service 20 and 20A have had minor changes to timetables and the 20E has been renumbered 20B, with no changes to the route.